“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“...the best poems were like little vessels that carry messages that can’t be transported in any other way; miniature worlds like tiny… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
“Now the twelfth canto of Book II is an almost literal translation from Tasso description in the Jerusalem Delivered of the island… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting.… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as… — Robyn Donald Copy Share Image
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all. — John Keats Copy Share Image
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax Of cabbagesand kings And why the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.” — Jay Long Copy Share Image
Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“He was always thoughtful and affectionate toward her, and so she was a sweetheart to him.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Rain rain go away , come again another day i sung this poem yesterday that's y rain come today — Babloo Copy Share Image
“Harnessing winter's energy, I drift, my free, wild woman's soul, alight with day's deep desires.” — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers You’ve got nothing, I’ve got nothing, And it’s not a good thing.” — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
“We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean upon instead, build her wings and point her to the sky… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
